Question: Is Coach For Life ICF Accredited?

Yes, Coach For Life has been awarded two "ACTP - Accredited Coach Training Program" designations from ICF.

1. Effective January 2000 for the "Master Certified Life Coach Program™". This Program results in the "Master Certified Life Coach - MCLC" designation and requires approximately 2 years.
• This Program is made up of -
  • The 8-week Life Coach Program™
  • The 6-month Certified Life Coach TeleCourse
  • The 8-week Living the Standards of Presence TeleCourse
  • The 12-Month Master Certified Life Coach TeleCourse
2. Effective September 2001 for the "Certified Life Coach Program™". This Program results in the "Certified Life Coach - CLC" designation and requires approximately 1 year.
   • This Program is made up of -
     • The 8-week Life Coach Program™
     • The 6-month Certified Life Coach TeleCourse

Question: Once someone enrolls, how long is it before they can actually start coaching?

Class registrants can begin actively coaching and "practice building" after completing the initial 5-day Comprehensive Coaching Seminar - this is the first week of the Life Coach Program™.

Question: How long does the typical person take to go through your basic training?

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Coach For Life's "Basic Training" is made up of the Life Coach Program™. This 8-week Program has no more than 18 participants. The Life Coach Program™ earn 64 SCLH. Total 8 weeks.

Question: How much training and assistance do you give on marketing?
 

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A significant portion of the Life Coach Program™ is dedicated to practicing and being comfortable to speak about coaching and claiming coaching as your profession. A major theme and experiential personal development in the Life Coach Program™ is "opening up to receive". This is vital in being ready to receive guidance, clients, money, acknowledgments, referrals that will easily and naturally build your coaching practice.

Question: What are the prerequisites in becoming a life coach?

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Coaching will be filled with satisfaction, ease and fulfillment when the following are embraced:

• Do your own personal growth (So you will not get hooked by what your clients are going through)
• Let go of your own ego 'in having the best answer for your client' (So you will not have to work very hard nor be responsible for your client's life but allow your client to be empowered)
• Be 'invisible' in the coaching relationship (You hold the space for your client to discover them self, this is not a relationship where you get to fully share your self).

 

Question: What is coaching?

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Coaching is holding a space of total acceptance for your self and for your client as you facilitate the client's self-discovery and re-connection to their inner most truths about them self – their qualities, their gifts and their life purpose. The coach also facilitates the client with their conscious alignment with their inner most truths in their everyday decisions. The coach's role is to raise the level of consciousness of the client through questions that allow the client to choose what they want, what they are prepared to do and what they are prepared to commit to them self in the present moment. The coach is charged with the responsibility of supporting the client by asking them what awareness came up for them in doing (or not doing) the commitments the client had made to them self.

Question: How did Coach For Life get started?

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With tremendous ease!

In March of 1996, Coach For Life was invited to create a coaches training program and coaching model that integrated the practical tools of coaching with the infinitely resourceful power of Spirit. We honor and:

• Present left brain (linear and logical) coaching tools and materials.


• Present right brain (intuitive and free-form) coaching methods and processes.


• Integrate Spiritual principles into every aspect of our coaching tools, model and learning environment.

Question: What is Coach For Life's philosophy of coaching?

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1. A client's success is rooted in their willingness "to fully express their (human) self while fully accessing their (divine) SELF".

2. The focus is always on what's working and then expanding those inherent abilities.

3. The focus is also on accessing the Divine Presence where our infinite resourcefulness is sourced.

The results produced in union with the power within us (and the ease in which the results are produced) will always out distance the results of all tips or techniques we could learn or apply.

Question: What is Coach For Life's model of coaching?

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Our Fulfillment Coaching Model™ is based on the belief that we experience fulfillment when we are:

• The Coach consciously connects with God/Spirit.


• We support the client to know their inner-most core values, life purpose and innate gifts.


• We facilitate and acknowledge the cleint when they live their life in alignment with their core values and fully express their unique gifts and life purpose.

Question: What is Coach For Life's learning environment like?

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The unique Coach For Life learning environment is an educational breakthrough that transforms lives by making it safe to freely re-discover ones innate magnificence and connection with Spirit.

You will forever be transformed. . .having experienced. . . ease, peace, joy, and fulfillment!

The first-hand experience of this environment's power leads you to a level of awareness that allows you to create and hold the same trusting and empowering environment for your coaching clients.

The Foundation for Inspired Learning was created with a gererous donation of the Intellectual Property from Coach For Life known as the "Inspired Learning Environment" Model.

Question: How long does it take to complete your various Programs?

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The Life Coach Program™ – 8 weeks, resulting in the "Coach For Life Graduate" designation, earning 64 SCLH

The Certified Life Coach Program™ - normally takes one year, resulting in the "Certified Life Coach - CLC" designation, earning a total of 133 SCLH.

The Master Certified Life Coach Program™ - normally takes two years, resulting in the "Master Certified Life Coach - MCLC" designation, earning a total of 210 SCLH.

Question: How many participants have been trained by Coach For Life?

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As of December 2007, over 600 people have graduated from the 100+-hour Life Coach Program™. Formal Coach For Life Certification Programs began in July, 1999. Graduates include a wide range of professionals, including Therapists, CPAs, Ministers, Health Care Professionals, Consultants, Engineers, Business Executives, Entrepreneurs, National Speakers and Trainers and Authors.

Question: How are trainings conducted?

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The first week of the Life Coach Program™ is in-person training located throughout the country, are limited to 18 participants, along with two certified facilitators. The remaining 8-week TeleCourse, is limited to the same 18 participants, with at least one certified facilitator. The 6-month and 12-month certification programs are conducted by telephone with a master certified facilitator in groups of 6 or less.

Question: Can your spiritually-based coaching model be used in business?

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Yes, with ease and alignment, power and empowerment and with stunning and immediate results!! The Fulfillment Coaching Model™ offers principles and tools that have proven highly effective in business, legal and educational organizations. The Model provides a confidence to coach the whole person – personal and professional. A recent graduate, a business owner himself, says, "Amazingly simple and incredibly powerful!"

Question: Is your 'spirituality' church-based and what do you mean by "spirituality"?

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Our coach training is not affiliated with any church or religious doctrine. We have graduates, however that come from many faiths and churches - including: Christian, Judeo, Hindu, Buddhist, Science of Mind, Unity as well as non-church-based faiths and belief systems. They have universally found our spiritual model in great alignment with their core beliefs and faith. The spiritual foundation and some of the principles that The Fulfillment Coaching Model™ and learning environment is based on are:

1. We are all connected.

 

2. Each person has direct access to God/Spirit (whatever each individual calls their perception of a Divine Presence).

 

3. What you focus on expands.

 

4. We are the primary initiator in creating our life experiences. (We have free-will to do this consciously or unconsciously.)

 

5. Being a loving and accepting person facilitates peace, joy and clarity of purpose for our self and for everyone we touch.

Question: What are the current general guidelines for coaching fees.

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A coach's fee structure is generally reflected in their experience and confidence as a coach.

• Foundation session: $250-$500, 2-hr session generally done in person to design and begin the coaching relationship.


• Monthly fee: $200-500/mo., 2 to 4 sessions of 30 to 60 minutes per month. The client calls the coach at appointed time each week.


• Payment: Paid in advance on the first of the month.


• Agreement Term: Generally 3 months or longer. Coaches are encouraged to utilize written agreements to provide the client with clarity of purpose and clarity of time and financial commitments that are being agreed to.